Performing property in Göllüce: land enclosures and commoning struggles in 1960s Turkey

Fırat, Begüm Özden

doi:10.1080/03066150.2021.1907354

Cited by 3 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 23 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Soon after, another land occupation began in Göllüce, a neighboring village (Fırat 2017;Fırat 2021). The primary target of the occupation was Mesude Evliyazade, the aunt of former Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, who was overthrown in the 1960 coup and executed in 1961.…”

Section: Land Occupations Protecting Village Commonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Land occupation as a form of peasant struggle in Turkey, 1965–1980

Gürel

Küçük

Taş

2022

New Perspect. Turk.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article contributes to the literature on rural politics in Turkey by investigating peasants’ land occupations between 1965 and 1980. We show that agricultural modernization after 1945 created the structural conditions for land conflicts by enabling the reaching of the frontier of cultivable land and facilitating landlords’ displacement of tenants. The 1961 Constitution’s promise of land reform and the rise of the center-left and socialist politics helped peasants press for land reform by combining direct action and legalistic discourse. Moreover, the vastness of state-owned land and the incompleteness of cadastral records allowed peasants to challenge landlords’ ownership claims. During land occupations, villagers often claimed that contested areas were public property illegally encroached upon by landlords, and that the state was constitutionally obliged to distribute it to peasants. Although successive right-wing governments decreed these actions to be intolerable violations of property rights, their practical approach was more flexible and conciliatory. Although nationwide land reform was never realized, land occupations extracted considerable concessions via the distribution of public land and inexpensive land sold by landlords.

show abstract

Section: Land Occupations Protecting Village Commonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Land occupation as a form of peasant struggle in Turkey, 1965–1980

Gürel

Küçük

Taş

2022

New Perspect. Turk.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice

Boelens

Escobar

Bakker

et al. 2022

The Journal of Peasant Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Mega-damming, pollution and depletion endanger rivers worldwide. Meanwhile, modernist imaginaries of ordering ‘unruly waters and humans’ have become cornerstones of hydraulic-bureaucratic and capitalist development. They separate hydro/social worlds, sideline river-commons cultures, and deepen socio-environmental injustices. But myriad new water justice movements (NWJMs) proliferate: rooted, disruptive, transdisciplinary, multi-scalar coalitions that deploy alternative river–society ontologies, bridge South–North divides, and translate river-enlivening practices from local to global and vice-versa. This paper's framework conceptualizes ‘riverhood’ to engage with NWJMs and river commoning initiatives. We suggest four interrelated ontologies, situating river socionatures as arenas of material, social and symbolic co-production: ‘river-as-ecosociety’, ‘river-as-territory’, ‘river-as-subject’, and ‘river-as-movement’.

show abstract

A double movement of enclosure and commons: commoning Emek movie theatre in three acts

Fırat¹

2022

City

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Performing property in Göllüce: land enclosures and commoning struggles in 1960s Turkey

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Land occupation as a form of peasant struggle in Turkey, 1965–1980

Land occupation as a form of peasant struggle in Turkey, 1965–1980

Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice

A double movement of enclosure and commons: commoning Emek movie theatre in three acts

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About